Placement of ‘Mother Canada’ statue has Cape Bretoners on war footing
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If she had the Spliff of Togetherness I'd be more likely to go for it, to be honest. or a Machine Gun of Motherlyness that shoots babies instead of bullets, that would be prettty cool.
If she had a Spliff of Togetherness, she'd be Mother Jamaica. The Machine Gun of Motherlyness. . . I'm thinking Utah.
Nope, a true Mother Canada would have a Tap of Molson.
No, I don't think so MF.
Had that even been on your radar, you would have mentioned something other than whinning about a statue.
Nope, this is nothing more than a tasteless excuse to run at a politician you don't like.
Good point, why now that I think of it, I can't remember the last time there were Remembrance Day ceremonies at dedicated sites in any other city than Ottawa.
Good catch Zip!
Initially, I thought Sleepy's comment supercilious and intended to provoke. However, upon reflection, there indeed is something inspirational and spiritual in Mother Canada's welcoming bosom. She is our national personification of Mother Earth, Gaia, the Greek goddess, mother of titans. Our mountains east and west are her breasts evoking a warm welcoming fertility elsewhere in our Dominion.
I am certain our farmers who have come from every corner of the earth are reminded, seeing her outstretched arms, of the line from Shakespeare's "Cleopatra" (Act II, Scene II, Agrippa): "He plowed her and she cropped."
Yes indeed, the Motherland is truly divine!
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I go to the commemoration every year in North Vancouver--they have a good site. This year the boys has a soccer tourney scheduled on November 11. And then they proceeded not to stop the tourney at 11:00. The guy running it said it was up to individiual coaches to decide if they were going to honour Rmemebrance Day or not. I went up one side of that guy and down the other. Bad enough that he'd schedule a tourney through 11:00, what kind of example was that setting for the kids, yadda yadda yadda. He won't be making that mistake again!
We also have a beautiful statue outside the old Vancouver CP Rail station (Seabus station now):
I believe she is called The Bronze Angel.
agreed....it's embarrassing... Canadians do not do this kinda "here we are" in your face sh!t
less is more.... hello
yeah. A really BIG fuking ring...
They are both the same statue. Right out front of the Seabus Terminal downtown on Cordova (or, if you're like me and navigate by bars, right next to Steamworks) though you may have walked by and not noticed. I walked by it for years without seeing it. Funny how that happens.
Our snows are the only monument we need.
From 'Bereavement of the Fields"
71 Soft fall the February snows, and soft
72 He sleeps in peace upon the breast of her
73 He loved the truest; where, by wood and croft,
74 The wintry silence folds in fleecy blur
75 About his silence, while in glooms aloft
76 The mighty forest fathers, without stir,
77 Guard well the rest of him, their rare sweet worshipper.
William Wilfred Campbell
From 'Bereavement of the Fields"
71 Soft fall the February snows, and soft
72 He sleeps in peace upon the breast of her
73 He loved the truest; where, by wood and croft,
74 The wintry silence folds in fleecy blur
75 About his silence, while in glooms aloft
76 The mighty forest fathers, without stir,
77 Guard well the rest of him, their rare sweet worshipper.
William Wilfred Campbell
A controversial war memorial incorporating a seven-storey-high statue called “Mother Canada” that was championed by the former Conservative government of Stephen Harper will not be built on the rocky shores of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park, says the head of Parks Canada.
The Never Forgotten National Memorial had been supported by some local communities for its potential economic benefits but was denounced as an offensive monstrosity and a blight on an important geological feature by its many opponents.
Its cancellation comes less than two months after the new Liberal government downsized and moved the planned site of another contentious monument – that one to the victims of communism – from a prominent spot next to the Supreme Court building in Ottawa selected by the Conservative government.
Daniel Watson, the chief executive officer of Parks Canada, said Friday that the agency reviewed the war memorial proposed for the Cape Breton park and concluded there were too many problems preventing its completion by July 1, 2017, the date of its planned unveiling, including the availability of funds to the private foundation backing the project.
Sean Howard, the spokesman for Friends of Green Cove, a citizens group created for the sole purpose of stopping the monument from being constructed, said there were many reasons it should never have been considered.
“Even if it had been a statue that we didn’t object to in terms of design or message, we were adamant that it didn’t belong in a national park,” Mr. Howard said.
Parks Canada has a prime directive to “preserve the ecological integrity of what they call the special places in their care. And you don’t do that by pouring concrete over them, including this internationally renowned geological formation that is around 400 million to 500 million years of history exquisitely displayed,” he said. “It would have been an act of ecological vandalism, federally sanctioned.”
Veterans objected to a proposed monument to Canada’s war dead that would have displayed the names of corporate sponsors but not the names of fallen soldiers, Mr. Howard said.
Parks Canada cancels involvement in Mother Canada memorial - The Globe and Mail
The Never Forgotten National Memorial had been supported by some local communities for its potential economic benefits but was denounced as an offensive monstrosity and a blight on an important geological feature by its many opponents.
Its cancellation comes less than two months after the new Liberal government downsized and moved the planned site of another contentious monument – that one to the victims of communism – from a prominent spot next to the Supreme Court building in Ottawa selected by the Conservative government.
Daniel Watson, the chief executive officer of Parks Canada, said Friday that the agency reviewed the war memorial proposed for the Cape Breton park and concluded there were too many problems preventing its completion by July 1, 2017, the date of its planned unveiling, including the availability of funds to the private foundation backing the project.
Sean Howard, the spokesman for Friends of Green Cove, a citizens group created for the sole purpose of stopping the monument from being constructed, said there were many reasons it should never have been considered.
“Even if it had been a statue that we didn’t object to in terms of design or message, we were adamant that it didn’t belong in a national park,” Mr. Howard said.
Parks Canada has a prime directive to “preserve the ecological integrity of what they call the special places in their care. And you don’t do that by pouring concrete over them, including this internationally renowned geological formation that is around 400 million to 500 million years of history exquisitely displayed,” he said. “It would have been an act of ecological vandalism, federally sanctioned.”
Veterans objected to a proposed monument to Canada’s war dead that would have displayed the names of corporate sponsors but not the names of fallen soldiers, Mr. Howard said.
Parks Canada cancels involvement in Mother Canada memorial - The Globe and Mail
